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Affirmative action in India: redistribuzione di beni e creazione di identità
2009
L’India è probabilmente lo stato in cui l’affirmative action riguarda la più ampia percentuale di popolazione e i più svariati ambiti della vita pubblica; inoltre le prime forme di agevolazione di gruppi svantaggiati previste dal governo risalgono ad oltre 130 anni fa. La reservation policy (il nome con cui in India vengono chiamate le azioni positive) è argomento ricorrente del dibattito pubblico: tema eminente di ogni programma elettorale, influisce fortemente nella costituzione della base dei partiti e nella scelta dei rappresentanti, è contestata o invocata in molte battaglie politiche e in numerosi conflitti sociali che agitano il paese. Ha contribuito fortemente a profilare le identit…
An Easy Assessment of Frailty at Baseline Independently Predicts Prognosis in Very Elderly Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes.
2017
Background: Information about the impact of frailty in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) is scarce. No study has assessed the prognostic impact of frailty as measured by the FRAIL scale in very elderly patients with ACS. Methods: The prospective multicenter LONGEVO-SCA registry included unselected patients with ACS aged 80 years or older. A comprehensive geriatric assessment was performed during hospitalization, including frailty assessment by the FRAIL scale. The primary endpoint was mortality at 6 months. Results: A total of 532 patients were included. Mean age was 84.3 years, 61.7% male. Most patients had positive troponin levels (84%) and high GRACE risk score values (mean 16…
Intervention and peace*
2018
Abstract Intervention often does not lead to peace, but rather to prolonged conflict. Indeed, we document that it is an important source of prolonged conflicts. We introduce a theoretical model of the balance of power to explain why this should be the case and to analyse how peace can be achieved: either a hot peace between hostile neighbours or the peace of the strong dominating the weak. Non-intervention generally leads to peace after defeat of the weak. Hot peace can be achieved with sufficiently strong outside intervention. The latter is thus optimal if the goal of policy is to prevent the strong from dominating the weak.
Eiropas aizsardzības stiprināšana un Baltijas valstu izaicinājumi
2018
Kopējās drošības un aizsardzības politika ir kļuvusi par vienu no lielākajām prioritātēm un kritiski apskatītāko diskusijas tematu Eiropas Savienībā, kas automātiski izveido jaunu platformu attīstībai valstīm, kuras ir vistuvāk ES ārējām robežām. Maģistra darba galvenais izvirzītais mērķis ir identificēt Eiropas Savienības aizsardzības un drošības sektora jaunās iespējas un piedāvātās metodes, kas tiks aktualizētas un īstenotas Daudzgadu finanšu shēmas (Multiannual Financial Framework) ietvaros no 2021. –2027.gadam, un piedāvāt ieteikumus un risinājumus, plānojot to iespējamo izmantošanu un pielietojumu Baltijas valstīs. Pētījuma rezultāti parāda, ka, pirmkārt, Eiropas Savienības valstis ir…
Foreign direct investment attraction in the Baltic States
2014
This paper considers the importance of macroeconomic factors as well as investment climate for foreign direct invest ment attraction in the Baltic states. It reviews some of the indicators for measuring the investment climate and their usefulness as indicators of strength of FDI attraction and uses the results of econometric analysis to consider relative importance of various macroeconomic factors. The results suggest that perceptions of corruption and fiscal policy are some of the more important drivers of FDI attraction. The paper also considers several measures that could improve foreign direct investment attraction in the Baltic States such as expanding the protection of property right…
Effect ofMicrocystis aeruginosa andNodularia spumigena on survival ofEurytemora affinis and the embryonic and larval development of the Baltic herrin…
2003
Laboratory experiments were carried out to investigate the effect of two strains of Microcystis aeruginosa and a strain of Nodularia spumigena on the survival of Eurytemora affinis (Copepoda) and on the embryonic and larval development of the Baltic spring-spawning herring Clupea harengus membras. The trials were made in water taken from Parnu Bay, at a salinity of 3.7–5.1 psu, a constant temperature (15°C ± 1°C in trials with Eurytemora and herring embryos; 18°C ± 2°C with herring larvae), and an oxygen concentration of 8.8–10.4 ppm. The strains tested had a negative impact on the survival of Eurytemora, as well as on the embryonic development and hatching regime of the Baltic herring. In …
Reemigrācijas attīstība Baltijas valstīs
2016
Migrācija ir nebeidzams pārvietošanās process, gan reģionālā, gan globālā līmenī. Migrācija ietekmē dažādas cilvēku grupas – ekonomiskos migrantus, bez pajumtes palikušās personas, bēgļus (patvēruma meklētājus) un ceļotājus. Migrācija ir daudzslāņains, sarežģīts process, kuru izpētes gaitā nepieciešams skatīt no dažādiem aspektiem, tādēļ, lai gūtu plašāku pārskatu par migrācijas paveida – remigrācijas attīstību Baltijas valstīs, maģistra darbs ir strukturēts divos līmeņos – empīriskais pētījums par trīs Baltijas valstīm – Lietuvu, Latvija un Igauniju un kvalitatīvais pētījums – reemigrācijas attīstība Baltijas valstīs: Latvijas gadījums. Maģistra darba mērķis ir veikt padziļinātu izpēti par…
The Consequences of Banking Crises for Public Debt
2010
The aim of this paper is to assess the consequences of banking crises for public debt. Using an unbalanced panel of 154 countries from 1980 to 2006, the paper shows that banking crises are associated with a significant and long-lasting increase in government debt. The effect is a function of the severity of the crisis. In particular, for severe crises, comparable to the most recent one in terms of output losses, banking crises are followed by a medium-term increase of about 37 percentage points in the government gross debt-to-GDP ratio. Measuring the increase in debt in this manner seems more appropriate than some of the measures used in the literature that have provided off-quoted and very…
Finances and credit: problems, conceptions, management
2001
Economic situation in the Baltic States is investigated, in particular the development of economics in transition is analysed in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Poland. There are studied the following details: Monetary and exchange rate policy; Crediting and bank management; Development of securities market; Management of taxes and finance; Development of accounting policy; Pension reform perspective etc.
: The Place of the State in Africa according to the World Bank : limits of a neo-liberal policy
2005
This contribution aims to analyse the change in discourse held by the World Bank concerning the reform of the State in Africa in the educational sphere. After inspection, it emerges that despite new discourses on the "fight against poverty", the World Bank's neo-liberal policy still grants the State a minor role in the design and execution of educational policies. One would have thought of an evolution from the strict structural adjustment policies towards a policy of social adjustment where fundamental assets concerning the social field would be taken into account. That is not the case : the fight against poverty policy maintains the course of adjustment policies, by preserving a minimal s…